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Rizwan Arshad wins Shivaji Nagar by-election by over 13000 votes

Counting of votes in Karnataka where byelections in 15 seats were held on December 05 has started amidst tight security

Monday December 9, 2019 7:40 PM, ummid.com with inputs from IANS

Bengaluru: Congress candidate Rizwan Arshad won the Shivaji Nagar assembly seat in Bengaluru by over 13,000 votes, according to the final result declared by the Karnataka State Election Commission.

Rizwan Arshad polled a total of 49,887 votes and defeated his nearest rival M Saravana of BJP who got 36,367 votes.

Overall BJP won 12 seats whereas Congress won 02. JD(S) which was earlier leading in 02 seats could not won a single seat.

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10:50 am Trends available at 10:50 am showed Rizwan Arshad of Congress is leading in Shivaji Nagar assembly seat by over 7,500 votes.

According to Election Commission trends, Rizwan Arshad is leading his nearest rival M Saravana of BJP by 7,557 votes.

09:45 am Trends available at 09:45 am showed Rizwan Arshad of Congress is leading in Shivaji Nagar assembly seat by over 3500 votes.

According to Election Commission trends, Rizwan Arshad is leading his nearest rival M Saravana of BJP by 3,559 votes.

08:45 am Trends available at 08:45 am showed Rizwan Arshad of Congress is leading in Shivaji Nagar assembly seat where byelection was held on December 05.

Elsewhere in the state, BJP is leading in 08 seats whereas Janata Dal (S) is ahead in 01.

08:30 am: Trends available at 08:30 am showed BJP leading in 09 of the 15 seats where byelections were held on December 05.

The Congress is leading in Shivaji Nagar whereas Janata Dal (S) is leading in Krishnarajpet assembly seat.

08:20 am Trends available after conunting of postal votes show the ruling BJP leading in 08 seats.

The eight seats where the BJP has taken up a lead are: Hunsur, Krishanrajpet, Kagwad, Vijayanagara Krishnarajapura, Mahalakshmi Layout, Gokak and Yellapur.

08:05 am Counting of votes in Karnataka where byelections in 15 seats were held on December 05 has started amidst tight security.

The final results are expected by today afternoon. However, trends will start trickling by 08: 30 am today.

06:45 am Votes polled in Karnataka's by-elections on December 5 in 15 Assembly constituencies will be counted today i.e. Monday and results would be declared by evening.

"Arrangements have been made for counting of votes in the 15 Assembly segments on Monday from 8:00 a.m. at 11 centres, including three in Bengaluru for four urban seats. Postal ballots will be counted first, followed by counting of votes in EVMs," Election Commission official G. Jadiyappa told IANS here.

The results of the by-elections are crucial for the four-month-old BJP government in the southern state, as the ruling party requires at least seven seats in the 223-member Assembly for a simple majority, with 112 as the halfway mark.

"Though trends will be available from 9-10 a.m., a clear picture of the votes polled will emerge post-noon and results will be declared after completing 20 rounds of vote count in each constituency," said Jadiyappa.

Around 67.9 per cent (26 lakh) of the 38 lakh voters cast their ballots in the 15 constituencies to fill the vacancies caused by the resignation of 14 Congress and three Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) and their subsequent disqualification by former Assembly Speaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar for defying their party whip.

Of the nearly 38 lakh voters in all the constituencies, around 26 lakh voted, with 8 of them in semi-urban and rural areas recording above 75 per cent and 4 seats in Bengaluru registering below 60 per cent.

Hosakote in Bengaluru Rural district recorded the highest voting percentage of 90.90, followed by Chikkaballapur 86.84, Hunsur 80.59, K.R. Pete 80.52, Hirekerur 79.03, Yellapur 77.53, Kagwad 76.24 and Athani 75.37.

Bypolls in two seats - Muski in Raichur district and R.R. Nagar in Bengaluru southwest were not held due to a litigation in the Karnataka High Court on their results in the May 2018 Assembly elections.

The BJP and the opposition Congress contested in all the 15 Assembly seats, while the JD-S in 12 seats.

BJP Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and opposition Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Sunday claimed they would win the majority of seats.

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